From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:50:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B9B4AEA0-AA55-4EF8-9B4F-CEAE0C8BCEF7@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.t44sokpfhipq0d@santucco>
They are troff(1) source files using the ms(6) macro set (the
extension .ms). Man pages on Plan 9, though :-) TeX is available for
Plan 9, though
On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Alexander Sychev wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:24:31 +0300, Charles Forsyth
> <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
>
>>> Why does Inferno
>>> use the .pdf extension, then?
>>
>> that's what gs produced on plan 9 when i asked for pdf.
>> i tried another program elsewhere, probably gs on linux, but it
>> didn't fare any better.
>> i should probably try the adobe site that converts single
>> documents, if that's still there.
>> i'm reluctant to buy a new acrobat copy just for one file.
>> they lost my vote when they added javascript.
>
> BTW, what a type of source files? Are they the TeX-files? In such
> case .pdf might be produced by pdflatex ;-).
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> santucco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-18 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-18 2:18 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-18 10:00 ` Uriel
2008-01-18 11:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-18 13:38 ` Wes Kussmaul
2008-01-18 14:27 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-01-18 15:15 ` Alexander Sychev
2008-01-18 19:50 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2008-01-18 15:30 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-01-18 15:47 ` Russ Cox
2008-01-18 16:16 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-18 16:26 ` Charles Forsyth
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